Materials really do matter to the health of occupants and the environment, but the ingredients are not easy to discern. To perform, material composition involve tradeoffs with how sustainable, floodproof, or healthy these ingredients are. With tens of thousands of unregulated chemicals in building products, how many are toxic? How does one predict reliability and longevity of a product, especially in the post-Harvey reality? How much data is available regarding life-cycle assessments and embodied energy, and the manufacturing process regarding byproducts, pollution, and transpo

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